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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by soheil on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:07PM (#33063071)
Cost of an engine is upwards of 10k and all it takes for an engine failure is skipping a few oil change cycles. An EV battery lasts just as long without having to be maintained as much and when it fails it costs around 6k and in 5 years probably half that amount.
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Re:Toyota CEO talks about why he isn’t all-in on EVs by jjav on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:56AM (#33064307)
> all it takes for an engine failure is skipping a few oil change cycles.

Any economy car you can buy will easily survive for a very long time even if you completely neglect all maintenance. It is nowhere near true that an engine will fail from missing a few oil changes.

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